Deflector and ventilator for passenger-cars



(No- Model.)

' 0. E. BERRY. DEFLEGTOR AND VENTILATOR FOR PASSENGER GARS.

No. 500,555. PatentedvJuly 4, 1893.

' @ZOMWM I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. BERRY, CF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEFLECTOR AND VENTILATOR FOR PASSENGER-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 500,555, dated July 4, 1893.

Application filed October 6, 1890. Serial No. 367,156. (No model.)

'the construction of cinder deflectors and ventilators for passenger cars.

In accordance with this invention the deflector and ventilator is adapted to be secured to the window at that side nearest the engine, it projecting outwardly substantially at right angles to the outer wall of the car.

The device consists of a vertical bar, a top and a bottom rail constituting the supporting frame, and two vertical plates held in or secured to said frame, and having a slot or passage between them, and a deflecting plate arranged obliquely to the aforesaid vertical plates and covering said slot or passage atthe rear side of the device. Cinders and the like which strike against the front side of the vertical plates will be there checked, while those which pass through the slot or passage will strike against the front side of the deflecting plate and will be deflected in a direction away from the window, while the airpassing through this slot or passage being also deflected from or by the open window creates a current the tendency of which is to draw the air out of the car and thereby materially assist ventilation.

Figure 1 shows in side view a deflector and ventilator attached to the window casing of a car; Fig. 2 a horizontal section of the deflector and ventilator shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a rear side view of the deflector and ventilator shown in Fig. 1.

The deflector consists of a vertical bar a, shaped to be fitted to the window casin g, a top rail b, and a bottom rail 0, these three parts constituting the supporting frame.

allel vertical plates d, e, are secured to the top and bottom rails b, 0, one of which as d is rabbeted to the vertical bar a, said plates being so located as best shown in Fig. 2, to present Two para slot or passage between them. A plate as f is herein shown as secured to the supporting frame, the inner edge of which abuts against the outer edge of the plate d, said plate f being arranged obliquely to the plate d, and covering the slot or passage between the plates. This obliquely arranged plate f is sufficiently wide to overlie the plate 8 to some extent The plate f is secured to the frame at the rear side of the plates d, 6, so that the passage between the plates 01, 6, will have an inclined deflector back of it. Cinders and the like striking against the front of the plates d, e, are checked, while those which pass through the passage between said plates strike the front of the deflector f and are deflected; also the current of air which passes through said slot or passage being deflected by the plate f, passing by and away from the open window, draws the air contained within the car out of the window to thereby materially assist in ventilating the car.

I claim 1. The deflector and ventilator herein described consisting of the vertical bar a, top rail b, and bottom rail 0, constituting the supporting frame, vertical plates cl, e, secured to said frame with a slot or passage between them, and a plate f arranged obliquely at the rear side of the device and covering the said slot or passage, one edge of said plate f abutting against the outer edge of the plate (1, substantially as described.

2. The deflector and ventilator herein described consisting of the perpendicular plates e and f, the latter being arranged obliquely to the former and overlapping one edge of the same, and separated therefrom to leave a passage or opening between said plates the inner edge of plate f being in the plane of the plate 6, and a supporting frame for said plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. BERRY. 

